At a meeting of its Social Services Advisory Board today, San Diego County's Health and Human Services Agency asked for patience while they work to fix their troubled food-stamps program. Dale Fleming, the director of strategic planning and o...more

There's a poster on the wall of the Market Street welfare office in Southeast San Diego: "Applying for CalFresh just got easier," it says. The poster encourages people who want to enroll in the federal food-stamps program-dubbed "CalFresh" ...more

Local nonprofits worry that inadequate staffing in the
county department that handles food-stamp applications, combined with a
fixation on fraud and a fundamental misunderstanding of clients' needs,
will continue to undermine how the fed...more